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[John Ryland]

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On Monday 22 January 2001 18:16, Raymond Smith wrote:
>
> Really? When did he suggest that?

When they did the straw poll asking where to have the next one. He was 
sitting up the back of the lecture theater and yelled out 'what about 
Brisbane in winter'. I'm sure I wouldn't have been the only person to have 
heard him.

> (Certainly not when I was asking him how
> he thought HUMBUG could support mom and pop users. He had some great
> ideas.)

The straw poll thing was on the last day, the day *AFTER* the dinner.

> It would be very cool for next years conference to be in Brisbane. 

Absolutely :)

> :-) X/Open is the owner of the UNIX(tm) trademark; IANAL but I do not see
> how holding a trademark gives you power over the use of your mark in a
> similie. (Domestos(tm). It's like Coke(tm), but even better at cleaning.)

UNIX has various standards and tests you have to adhere to and be acredited 
with. You can't call yourself a UNIX OS or even 'UNIX like' because of that. 
If UNIX wasn't trademarked then it wouldn't be a problem, you could use the 
word however you liked. (BTW IANAL also) That is why Linux International have 
trademarked "Linux", so that the word is not misused and that there will only 
ever be one Linux kernel. And why the hell should we be comparing ourselves 
to UNIX and adhereing to their standards. Linux and BSD both have a growing 
number of users and out number any of the other UNIXes, if not all of them 
combined so why shouldn't UNIX be comparing itself to us.
BTW if I was coke, and domestos used something like what you suggested in an 
advertisement, I would take them to court.

Regards
John

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